[X4U] New Mac Pro's and FW400

[Randy B. Singer]

On Jul 27, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> Does it mean I can only run FW400 on that port?  Realistically at  
> this point it isn't much of a concern, right now I only have 3  
> drive enclosures plugged in.  Basically I'm thinking of SCSI where  
> if you have different speed devices, the chain will sync down to  
> the slowest device.

See:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8462657

You can mitigate the problem with a FireWire 800 hub, but they aren't  
cheap:

http://www.pccables.com/70928.htm

http://www.nitroav.com/product/113/

http://www.unibrain.com/Products/p1394/FR800pro.htm

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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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